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Posted on Nov 3rd, 2008 at 0:04 by Simon
Here’s the full list of the quotes I have – Just if you are interested…
Each place has its own advantages - heaven for the climate, and hell for the society.
Don\'t be so humble - you are not that great.
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
The average person thinks he isn\'t.
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one\'s work is terribly important.
To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
A goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false.
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move.
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
Bad planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, prepare to die.
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a \'C\', the idea must be feasible.
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
We don\'t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: 'no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall'.
Computers will never take the place of books. You can't stand on a floppy disk to reach a high shelf.
Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.
My computer goes down on me more often than my girlfriend.
I was sued by a woman who claimed that she became pregnant because she watched me on television and I bent her contraceptive coil.
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.
All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness
Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind!
I think I should not go far wrong if I asserted that the amount of genuine leisure available in a society is generally in inverse proportion to the amount of labor-saving machinery it employs.
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.
A computer without Windows is like a chocolate cake without mustard.
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
Never let a computer know you're in a hurry.
Computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1 1/2 tons.
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
The email of the species is deadlier than the mail.
The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.
The fantasy element that explains the appeal of dungeon-clearing games to many programmers is neither the fire-breathing monsters nor the milky-skinned, semi-clad sirens; it is the experience of carrying out a task from start to finish without user requirements changing.
If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled
God never made his work for man to mend.
This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it.
Technology presumes there's just one right way to do things and there never is.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who do not possess it.
The person who knows how will always have a job. But the person who knows why will always be his boss.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks.
I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet. That may be. But I think there's one other thing that separates us from the animals. We aren't afraid of vacuum cleaners.
To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
The most overlooked advantage of owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a bit.
There is only one satisfying way to boot a computer.
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
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